Pommie Git welcome to KB Ride - Chch

[cooneyr]

Weather is looking excellent for a day out. See you all at 9 at the Peg or 930 at the Mobile in Rangiora.

Cheers R

[Transalper]

Off to pick up a Sub for lunch then c u there.
River level has jumped a bit but only to 2.5cumecs and now dropping again by 4mm/hr. When in flood it gets up to over 100 cumecs so do not be put off. We will stop and have a good look at it before crossing or about turning. I want a photo of this level for future reference.

[XF650]

Awesome gravel, great scenery, top blokes & I didn't bin it.
A bloody good day.
Thanks

[marks]

Awesome gravel, great scenery, top blokes & I didn't bin it.
A bloody good day.
Thanks

so where are the bloody pictures....
did you take the 230?

[nigelp]

Awesome gravel, great scenery, top blokes & I didn't bin it.
A bloody good day.
Thanks

Ditto, apart from the comment about not binning it. Managed to do it properly once and was saved by the long arm of CooneyR a second time!

Had a awesome time, hanging out til next time!

[_Shrek_]

i was just lucky the duck on my windsreen kept us a float till we could stand my bike back up (nothing broken except pride)
other than that great day and company lets do that again

[mattsdakar]

Good day all round fellas, pleasantly surprised how nice the weather was after the overnight rain, and nice crash Shrek pity I missed it
Until next time

[cooneyr]

The weather was awesome as was the company. Not too many offs and nothing damaged. TA managed to find an inventive place to park on the way back to Miners Road - hopefully he puts the pic up. We went along one of the river roads instead of the tracks thinking it would be easier but the flooding last year had made some interesting changes to the topography. Will let TA explain the rest.

Good to put a couple of faces to names.

Cheers guys
R

[Transalper]

I was waiting to see what other photos were posted first, then i'd fill in some of the gaps.
Anyone got anything decent with me in?

1 Meeting at the Belfast Tavern/The Peg.

2 Regroup by the Whiterock Lime Co entrance.

3 Regroup at the top of the first climb.

4 The first ford, is that Pevs followed by XF650 on his little bike.

5,6 nigelp, that Freewind makes a big bow wave and splash.

[cooneyr]

Anyone got anything decent with me in?

Yep but its on your camera

Cheers R

[Transalper]

That first ford is a deepish slow moving hole in the middle of a creek, nothing to it really so long as you ease in to it, every one made light work of it.

1 Shrek at the first ford.

2 DAS man Phil at the first ford.

3 we are all through the first ford.

4 Choices, fork left and up for the steeper, slightly more slippery and rocky path. Turned out not as bad as we remembered... or follow the main road to the right. We split and half went up, half went right.

5 down approching the big one there is this, another deepish slow moving hole. Easier than it looks 'cause there's no current.

The Okuku River, the big one. It was recorded as being up to 2.3cumecs from last weeks 0.2cumecs. Still a fairly easy cross except someone decided to cross with the current (usually a good idea) which started them off in a deeper area and made those that took that route drift across a bit. Still no big dramas.

6 cooneyr crossing.

[Transalper]

1 426crasher getting a wet foot, still the Okuku ford.

2 pevs with a better line.

3 Oxford lunch

4 Waimak south bank, Shrek has just picked the bike up.

5 (a bit out of order) Matsdakar - Okuku ford, making a nice line.

6 Nigelp makes it look deep. Okuku ford. (actually if it were any deeper i'd have second thoughts)

[Transalper]

After crossing the little bridge at Intake Rd traveling toward Christchurch things started getting interesting.

1 Matsdakar

2 it was a bit of a stick bump in the track.

3 that wasn't the direction I was traveling in. Would have been a bit messy if the back wheel hadn't fitted down there too. We came from my right side, there is no corner there.

I have more but out of time today, off to work now.

[young1]

Great pictures team, thanks for sharing!

[scumdog]

Hmm, those ford piccies brought back memories guys!

Honda XL125, a large pack on the back of the bike, a smaller one hanging over the headlight, rifle on shoulder (off tahr hunting).

Ya ain't lived until you've dropped a bike laden like that into a deepish fast flowing river (not actually even a ford) and had to 'steer-wrestle' it back upright again....

Enjoy yourselves guys, certainly looks like fun and weather seemed pretty good for it too!